{"id":31601,"date":"2019-02-03T06:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T06:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31601"},"modified":"2019-02-03T06:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T06:22:35","slug":"romania-becomes-new-front-line-in-battle-with-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31601","title":{"rendered":"Romania becomes new front line in battle with &#8216;fake news&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67.1877133106\">\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/romania.html\">Romania<\/a>, it is feared that media-owning oligarchs and politicians will join forces to silence critics and independent voices in the run-up to the national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists in Bucharest are hoping that the country&#8217;s current high-profile status as president of the Council of the European Union will draw attention to their struggles.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission spends much of its time combating &#8216;fake news&#8217; coming out of Russia, but journalists in Romania feel that the EU should be doing more to support honest journalism at home.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Laurence Lee reports from Bucharest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Romania, it is feared that media-owning oligarchs and politicians will join forces to silence critics and independent voices in the run-up to the national elections. Journalists in Bucharest are hoping that the country&#8217;s current high-profile status as president of the Council of the European Union will draw attention to their struggles. The European Commission&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}